The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-10-19
A Way to Make Money.


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The Boston Heraid has been trying to
csfer 70 the tastes OF lis Sunday readers
by consulting number Of rich men as 70
Z the easiest way Of getting rich. and prin-
ting their answers Barnum said i wss
quite staple al you have to do r to
spend less than you earn. and 70 = shun
rum and tobacco" General Buffers adj
vice was to buy improved real estate.
/ partly for cash and partly for small notes
this being the way he became rich him
I self Mr.. Faxon, the temperance adyo-
cate, advised the practice Of sobriefy,
/ industry, economy and iaithlulness-
Mr.. Er&stus Winan warned young men
/ againss speculation and maintained that
legitimate trade. the honest. piodding
( routine Of life, WAS the true basis for good
fortune and that if young man does
Z not obtain riches through these he viii
/ never deserve them Mr. Asa Potter adj
vised the young man 10 select q busi-
ness that iscongenial to him. and, while
carrying II on. to be industrious, close
( temperate and patient" Mr. Mrler Pills
bury. the -four king. of Minneapolis.
recommended exceedingly hard work
and Just estimate Of ones own abilities
Temperance and economy. Mr. Russell
>age, for his part, advised the young
men to commit to memory, as ne did, the
advice Of Poionius 10 Laertes, and try to
live up To it. Al who do this. he saws,
are as certain to became wealthy as the
night Is to follow the lay
III viii be easily seen that none of these
eminent men had q word to say to people
eager to get rich, beyond the common
places Of worldly philosophy-except
perhaps, Gen Butler, who did descend
into details. But ofcourse, nobody who
values the Generals aivice on any sub
ject sllpposes that he owes his compe-
tent fortune" a. he once called il, 10 in
resting small savings in improved real
estate. The fact Is. that barring the men
who make fortune by a sin lie " big
strike in some sort Of speculation, there
Is probably no milliona re who can tell
how be got rieh-that Is, what the quail
ties or practices were which most aided
him in acquiring wealth All mi lion
aires probably think they know. but they
really DO not. II the best means Of ac-
quiring wealth could be communicated
TO others by successful practitioners, the
art of making money could and would be
taught in schools and colleges There
would be professors Of money making as
there are # : journalism but they would
have TO be rich men, because poor man
teaching poor people how 10 escape pow
erty wonld be a somewhat ludierous OBJ
jet. The fact that there are no such
schools or colleges Is, in truth. the best
possible proof that the art Of money ms
king is unteachable, because there Is no
art in which the demand for instruction
Is 50 widespread and 80 fierce.
The reason why the causes of success
in getting rich cannot be comnun ieaied
is probably the same which prevents the
cause Of success in any calling from be-
ing communicated. To say that man
sueceeds through industry and integrity
Is a mere platitude These qualities may
help man great deal. but they are ey-
identity not essential. for a great MANY
men sucoeed without them. and tens Of
thousands who have them do not succeed
In fact, We cannot put our finger on a
single quality or gift which IS necessary
to make man a millionaire. nor can We
say what the exact combination Of quail
tiles or gifts IS which makes man sue
ceed in anything. 1t appears to be Just
as hard. if we may judge from the num-
i'er Of failures, to succeed at the t,ar. or
in medicine. or divinity, or soldering. as
in money making The men who sue
ceed AL know something which Is Of
great use 10 them in rising. but no one
knows Of anything or Of any two or three
things in the absence Of which be would
certainly have failed.
If anybody had asked Napoleon, or
Wellington OF Grant to explain TO him
how be won battles. he would have got
no better answers than the Boston Her-
aid got from the millionaires about mon
ey making. The great General 10 whom
such foolish question was put would
have answered that he could not tell
that the training WAS, ofcourse. very val
liable. but that in the last resort what
did the business was good judgment al
critical moments, and that this judgment
had It's source partly in character and
partly in experience. A ,ilan with tn
money making talent knows gool
thing that Is, a desirable investment or (
venture, when he sees IL How he knows
it he cannot explain. In fact, there Is no .
talent which Is 80 deeply hidden away in
the recesses Of mans mental and moral
constitution there are no trustworthy
outward signs Of il neither temperament (.
nor education indicate II or produce it. /
This. a. we have said. Is in some degree I
true Of talent in all eallings, but in a
much smaller degree in all other- than !
in what i called business" In every /
calling success Is personal attribute, /
something which comes out Of mans /
brain and character, and which he ean
neither share nor transmit nor explain I
All he can say Is that he somehow knew /
how TO do things well, and when 10 do 4
them and when 10 let them alone, and 1
tn .reby ne got rich.
An important Element
OF the sueeess Of Hoods >arsaparilla Is
the fact that eyey purchaser receives 1